Careyless

Billboard‘s chart analyst Keith Caulfield speaks again about Madonna this week in his answer to a Mariah Carey fan.

Q: Hello Keith,

With Mariah Carey not releasing a new album until 2008, is this the first year in her nearly 18 year career she would not have had at least one single chart on The Billboard Hot 100? I think she has always had a song on The Billboard Hot 100 chart each year since 1990 with the exception of this year.
Jeff

A: Hi Jeff,

As it stands, you are right. Unless Mariah Carey releases something before the end of the year, this will be the first year since her debut that she hasn’t placed a single on The Billboard Hot 100.

But who knows, she may release something right before the close of the year, so we’ll see how the rest of 2007 shakes out.

If she doesn’t chart this year, don’t fret. She’s about to be joined by Madonna in the “darn, I missed 2007” club.

Madonna has had a single somewhere on The Billboard Hot 100 every year since 1983 debut with “Holiday,” except in 2007. Her last single to chart on The Billboard Hot 100, “Sorry,” spent its last week on the chart on April 16, 2006.

Eagle-eye chart watchers are now wondering “Wait, how did Madonna have a single on the Hot 100 in 1988 and 2004, when she released no singles?”

Well, here’s the answer: 1987’s “Causing a Commotion” spent its last week on the Hot 100 on Jan. 9, 1988 and 2003’s “Me Against the Music” spent its last week on the Hot 100 on Jan. 17, 2004.

Oh, that tricky Hot 100 chart!

Source: Billboard.com.
Thanks to Barbara.